Erin Britt – Las Vegas performer

Performer

Erin Britt

Live in Las VegasAmerica - The Show and Sinatra Live!

Director/Co-Producer

Erin Britt is a singer, actor, and producer, and the founder of The Swing It! Girls, a bi-coastal vintage vocal trio. A Music Theatre BFA from The Hartt School, she's performed Off-Broadway, on national tours, and across Las Vegas in shows like FRIENDS! The Musical Parody and Sinatra Live at Alexis Park. Writing and directing America, the Show has been a tremendous honor, and she hopes it helps audiences celebrate the nation's 250th with pride and joy. Her most rewarding role is being "Mommy" to her daughter.

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Sinatra Live! and the Rat Pack Era in Las Vegas

The Las Vegas that Frank Sinatra built didn't happen in an arena. It happened in rooms of a few hundred people, where a singer worked a few feet from your table, the band was live, and dinner was still in front of you when the first note landed. That was the Rat Pack era — the Sands, the Copa Room, and a run of nights in the late fifties and sixties that gave the city its reputation for grown-up entertainment.

Sinatra Live! is built to feel like one of those nights. Michael Sinatra performs the standards — My Way, Fly Me to the Moon, The Way You Look Tonight, Luck Be a Lady — backed by live musicians in the Alexis Garden, an intimate supper-club room just off the Strip where you can eat and drink through the show.

Is this a Rat Pack tribute show?

Not in the three-impersonator sense — you won't see actors playing Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. alongside Frank. Sinatra Live! is a dedicated Frank Sinatra tribute that recreates the era: the songbook, the swing arrangements, the supper-club setting and the loose, between-songs charm that made those Sands nights famous. If you're looking for the Rat Pack Vegas atmosphere with Sinatra's catalogue at the centre of it, this is that show. If you specifically want a three-man impersonator revue, it isn't.

Why an off-Strip showroom suits this material

The Rat Pack shows were small by design. A 2,000-seat theatre flattens the thing that made them work — the sense that the performer is in the room with you rather than projected onto it. The Alexis Garden seats a fraction of that, so the arrangements stay acoustic-forward and the between-song banter still lands. It's also a shorter, cheaper night out than a Strip headliner residency, which is usually the point for people who came to Vegas to do more than one thing in an evening.

What to expect